About Linux Distros and Choices

The techradar.com article "Best Linux distros for power users, gamers, newbies and more" presents the following opinions:

Best distro for newbies: Ubuntu 8.10/9.04.

Best for OS migrants: Linux Mint.

Best for families: Qimo.

Best for everyday use: Fedora 10.

Best for business: OpenSUSE 11.1.

Best lightweight distro: Puppy Linux 4.1.2.

Best for the sysadmin: Arch Linux.

Best for the coder: Mandriva 2009.

Best for servers: CentOS.

Best for music production: 64 Studio.

Best for gamers: Live.linux-gamers.

Best for multimedia: Mythbuntu.

OK. It's a multi-paged article, which is why I summarized things here, but it's worth reading. Still, the conclusions are a matter of opinion, of course. Something like Debian or Mepis or PCLinuxOS might fit your needs much better than the distros listed above. For me, there really is no "best Linux distro."

Another article I found at this site is "The pain-free guide to switching Linux distros: How to effortlessly swap between distros without losing files." It's an interesting and useful article; but for my purposes, multi-booting with a few different Linux distros, with one or more shared data partitions, is a better approach than trying to choose "the best distro" and sticking with only that one. But, that's me. The beauty of Linux is that you can choose from a number of approaches; whatever works best for you.